The successful image of Wikipedia as a powerful symbol within contemporary societies stands on top of the free-software paradign and the development of toolsets that allow collaborative editing and creation of TEXT. On the contrary, multimedia creative collaboration is definetely a work-in-progress and currently barely possible providing the popular multimedia creation paradigm and tools.

Patents for digital audiovisual toolsets and software monopolies do represent an absolute risk against operational principles of free-software and of course the Wikimedia collaboration framework in a wider cultural scheme. This presentation will gather previous ideas and state some risk and solution scenarios for the design of collaborative creation of audiovisual objects around:

1. Know-Hows and creative environments (far from the timeline).
2. Licencing, algorithms, formats and CODECS (free as in freedom).
3. The inminent promotion of the *free software* concept next to editathons and Wikimedia campaigns.

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